本教材为该英语写作慕课“大学英语过程写作”的配套教材，针对在大学英语教学中常见的写作短板和问题，提供英语写作技能专项讲解与夯实训练，帮助学生提高英语写作能力，促进学生职场英语和学术英语的发展。同时将价值塑造、知识传授、能力培养融为一体，激发学生的创新思维，提高批判性思维能力，提升跨文化意识，以开放、包容、思辨的心态理解多元文化的共同点与底层逻辑，帮助学生加深对中西文化差异的认知，坚定文化自信。 教材编排按照写作过程，将写作问题划分为写前过程（Prewriting Process）、撰写过程（Drafting Process）、修改过程（Revising Process）三大模块，针对每个过程中的常见问题，再细分为12 个知识点，每个知识点讲解如何解决该问题的写作知识和策略。这种问题导向的模块化设计贴合数字化时代碎片化学习的特点，有利于学生进行自我诊断、设计个性化自主学习路径。

前辅文
Prewriting Process
  1 What to write about?
  2 What is a thesis statement?
  3 How to put ideas together?
  4–1 What is an effective argument?
  4–2 What are logical fallacies?
Drafting Process
  5 How to write an introduction?
  6–1 How to structure the body of my essay? — Five-step exemplification
  6–2 How to structure the body of my essay? — Comparison and contrast
  6–3 How to structure the body of my essay? — Cause and effect
  6–4 How to structure the body of my essay? — Definition
  7 How to write a conclusion? 100
Revising Process
  8–1 I feel my writing is boring. — Use of specific words
  8–2 I feel my writing is boring. — Use of descriptive language, figure of speech
  8–3 I feel my writing is boring. — Sentence variety
  9–1 I don't know how to connect ideas. — Lexical cohesion
  9–2 I don't know how to connect ideas. — Grammatical cohesion
  9–3 I don't know how to connect ideas. — Thematic progression
  10 I feel my writing is informal.
  11 I feel my writing is wordy.
  12 I don't know how to revise my essay.